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Article: Suspension reduced ; Crisp gets 5 games, out for Rays' series
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2008
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HOUSTON - Red Sox center fielder Coco Crisp figured he did about
as well as could be expected yesterday, having his suspension
reduced from seven games to five by John McHale Jr., the executive
vice president of Major League Baseball who heard his appeal earlier
this week.
Crisp will begin serving his suspension tonight and will miss the
last two games of the Astros series and the scheduled three-game set
against the Tampa Bay Rays, beginning Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
That is of small comfort to the Rays, the other team in the June 5
brawl at Fenway Park. They reacted with disbelief at the news
Crisp's penalty was reduced. Their annoyance was heightened by
McHale's decision to uphold ...
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......JEFF HORRIGAN Coco Crisp returned to the Red...after sitting for two games because of a virus...Drew to play three games in center field...handling the position if Crisp is unavailable. He...that, Francona said. Crisp, meanwhile, has been...13-for-61) in the 17 games before the ...
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